The plenary session of the Constitutional Court has rejected all the challenges formulated by PP, Vox and Ciudadanos against various magistrates in a way that paves the way to resolve in the next plenary sessions the appeals that could be affected, such as those filed against the Euthanasia law, the Celáa law or the repeal of sedition.
The court of constitutional guarantees has reported that the plenary session has rejected the challenges promoted by the PP and Ciudadanos against magistrate Juan Carlos Campo and against magistrate Laura Díez for presenting them after the deadline.
The arguments against Campo were based on his time as a deputy, as Minister of Justice and as a partner of the current president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, while against Díez for his time as general director of Constitutional Affairs and legal coordination of the Ministry of the Presidency .
The Constitutional explains that the composition of the plenary session is public, notorious and invariable from the moment the magistrates take office, which, in this case, was on January 9. Since then, the period to promote his challenge of the matters in which he has knowledge begins and this expired on January 23 while the challenges were presented on the 31st.
Likewise, the plenary session has flatly rejected Vox's challenges that affect President Cándido Conde-Pumpido, and magistrate María Luisa Segoviano, as well as Campo y Díez for the penal reform that repealed the crime of sedition and modified the crime of embezzlement. The court argues that "this recusal would mean, if processed, an unacceptable stoppage of the functions of the Constitutional Court before which it must safeguard the exercise of its own jurisdiction."
On the other hand, the plenary session has accepted up to 14 abstentions from Juan Carlos Campo, among them on the Celaá law, which are added to another seven previous abstentions, due to his previous status as deputy and Minister of Justice.
